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Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit
About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can e…
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Turning sustainability compliance into a competitive edge
How financial institutions can turn mandatory reporting of financed emissions into a growth opportunity.…
OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"
At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer b…
Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs
Microblogging platforms generate massive amounts of short, noisy, and dispersed user content, making automatic keyphrase extraction (AKE) an important but chall…
Nemotron-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context
Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for parallel and iterative generation. However, existing…
Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation
Large reasoning models (LRMs) take longer on harder problems, just as humans do. This surface similarity hides an opposite pattern within items. When an LRM get…
DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography
In recent years, advancements in deep learning and generative models have revolutionized music-driven dance generation. This paper introduces a novel platform, …
NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications
This tutorial paper provides a step-by-step, reproducible walkthrough of NeuraDock Agent, an open-source EEG agent focused on Alpha dynamics and visual cognitiv…
Assessing Post-Reform Changes in Risk Disclosure Quality with a Multidimensional Text Analysis Approach
While corporate narrative disclosures provide crucial information to capital markets, comprehensively evaluating their qualitative changes over time remains cha…
Coarse-to-Fine: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Method for Non-rigid 3D Shape Matching
Non-rigid 3D shape matching is a fundamental task in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we propose a hybrid self-supervised method based on a coarse-t…
Explainable Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Models for Detecting the Presence of Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients
Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus, which results in mild to severe inflammation of the liver. Over many years, hepatitis C gradually damages th…
Temporally Consistent Label Interpolation for Robust Surgical Multi-Task Learning under Challenging Conditions
Effective multi-task learning for surgical scene understanding is fundamentally hindered by annotation granularity mismatch; temporal workflow tasks such as pha…
FracEvent: Event-Camera Simulation via Fractional-Relaxation Pixel Dynamics
Event cameras asynchronously report brightness changes with microsecond-level temporal resolution, but real event data remain difficult to collect at scale beca…
CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
In this paper, we present CAT-Q, Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization, for compressing and accelerating LLMs. Unlike existing state-of-the-art terna…
PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs
Autoregressive large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly limited by key-value (KV) cache movement rather than dense matrix multiplication. Modern paged…
SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills
Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces. Prior work has explored work…
Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction
Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that dep…
Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis
Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and pr…
ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration
The adoption of powerful diffusion models is hindered by their significant inference latency. Recent ``cache-then-forecast'' schemes alleviate this issue by acc…
Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction
Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) enhances scene representation by exploiting complementary cues from different modalities. Adverse weather, however, causes si…
Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction
Robots operating in real-world environments must in general be able to recognize previously unseen objects. As robotic systems move toward open-world autonomy, …
LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation
The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing environmenta…
Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT
Deploying large language models (LLMs) on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge devices demands extreme compression, yet existing structured pruning methods…
A Pipeline for Generating Longitudinal Synthetic Clinical Notes Using Large Language Models
Synthetic data is increasingly used to enable the development and evaluation of AI systems in domains where access to real-world data is restricted. In healthca…
Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization
Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items. In many prod…
Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model
Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interfer…
Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation
While text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, they struggle with real-world requests that are often underspecified, implicit, or dependent…
TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment
Existing facial expression quality assessment (FEQA) methods typically produce only a severity score, without explicitly communicating the observable facial mot…
XMSE-Aware Adaptive Empirical Bayes Estimation
Empirical Bayes (EB) estimators can match the first-order asymptotic risk of maximum likelihood (ML) while behaving very differently at second order: recent exc…
Enabling self-supervised learned primal dual with Noise2Inverse
X-ray computed tomography reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem, particularly in low-dose and sparse-angle settings where measurements are noisy and in…